UK general elections2015 › Harwich and North Essex

Harwich and North Essex — 2015

Bernard Jenkin (Conservative Party) was elected with 24,722 votes51.0% of 48,432 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,432

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes.Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it.Elected
1Bernard Jenkin Conservative Party 24,72251.0%+1.0 ptsElected
2Edward Carlsson Browne Labour Party 9,54819.7%
3Mark Hughes UK Independence Party 8,46417.5%
4Dominic Graham Liberal Democrats 3,5767.4%
5Christopher Flossman Green Party 2,1224.4%

Electorate 69,290 · Turnout 69.9% · Majority 15,174 · Back to 2015 overview

Source data: UK Parliament psephology database, retrieved 2026-05-19, generated 2026-05-19 (Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl-psephology@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.